Complaint Thred deleted with no notice to the posters?

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A recent discussion highlighted the deletion of a thread in the Electrical Engineering forum, which was initiated by a new user discussing transformers. The original poster expressed confusion about the content and questioned whether the deletion was due to its unclear nature. While acknowledging the deletion, there was a consensus that posters should be notified to avoid confusion about missing threads. It was noted that the thread was likely deleted because it was spam, as the user had been posting duplicate questions from other sites. The importance of communication regarding thread deletions was emphasized to enhance user experience.
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Yesterday, a new guy was posting some threads in Electrical Engineering one of which was regarding transformers. I got interested in it and had posted a line. The question seemed ununderstandable to me. Is that the reason why it was deleted?
I don't care if its deleted for some reasons, but I was in view that atleast the posters should be informed so that they don't keep searching it.
 
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It wasn't a real poster, it was just a spammer.
 
I see. I had a feel for it. It (we use 'it' for spammer) was posting too many threads.
 
His posts were copies of questions posted on other sites, like eng-tips.com.

Try this google search to see for yourself.
 

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